Uptown Skate School

New York City’s Only Manhattan based skateboarding school is in full summer swing making learning how to skateboard a safe and fun experience.

What’s going on?!? So you’ve seen the site change a dozen times and maybe got a little confused what was happening.   Here’s the scoop; we’ve had to change over to our summer [...]

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How can I get a skatepark in my town?

NOTE: What follows is the foreword and introduction to the printed edition of the Public Skatepark Development Guide. The entire online publication is available on skatepark.org. For a free copy of the printed edition, (you only pay shipping and handling), please visit www.publicskateparkguide.org
 
Why Skateparks? By Tony Hawk
Why [...]

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Skateboarding kickflips into PE
By Tracy Loew, USA TODAY

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Skateboarders aren’t frowned on at Oak Elementary School in Albany, Ore. In fact, students there get credit for performing grabs, kickturns and ollies in class.

Oak is among hundreds of schools across the country that have adopted a skateboarding curriculum in their physical education classes.

Skate [...]

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You’ve never seen a site like New York City on Go Skateboard Day.  We met up with so many different skaters from all over, not just city kids but Jersey, Connecticut, some dudes from Ohio.  It was an amazing day of skating and we even got to meet Chad Muska on the holiest of [...]

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Skateboarding Clinics for Summer 2008
Group Clinics are available Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 & 5:30

To Sign Up: Contact Wild Blue For more information
Uptown Skate School has  has partnered with Wild Blue and New York Pipe Dreams to create an amazing new skateboarding clinic for the summer – the only one in Manhattan currently offering regularly scheduled lessons for kids. 

Activities include: Basics, Trick lessons, [...]

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"On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding!"

Fly Solo: 
 NYPD’s Go Skateboarding Day Flyer

Meet up with other Skateboarders: 
NYC Skateboarding Meetup If you are looking for a group to meet up with [...]

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Stay Fit: Skateboard
Lose weight, tone muscles, improve balance, find flexibility and love every minute of it. 
Uptown Skate School is an advocate for enriching Physical Education by introducing skateboarding and other alternative athletic activities that kids identify with; a philosophy often referred to as “The New Physical Education”.
So many parents can relate to their kids [...]

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Claire & Sammy, Both of you were fantastic. Thanks for being so excited, staying focused and listening.
Check out your pictures they came out great.

 
My only advice is to consider wearing skate shoes or sneakers with flat soles. This will give you more grip on the board and more traction when you push off.
 

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  We are very proud of Nilou and Julian for being so enthusiastic and working so hard. It was even more fun because they are brother and sister, just like their instructors, Jennifer and David. They were super focused and learned so much their very first lesson. Julian, like my brother, is fearless. He jumped right [...]

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Excuse us while we get organized and get our site together.
Beginner skateboarding classes are available this summer.

We have male and female instructors who stress safe and responsible skating in every lesson. Signed waivers, helmet, knee and elbow pads are required.
The instructors at Uptown Skate School teache at several different locations throughout New York City and are happy [...]

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